EMBODYOGA^TM | Precision Alignment & Vinyasa Yoga

100 hour IN-DEPTH STUDY & 200 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts.

• Increase self-knowledge, acceptance and love through “embodied-inquiry”, asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophical study.
• Our EMBODYOGA™ programs are well-rounded, in-depth studies of yoga with an emphasis on personal embodiment as the basis for becoming a yoga teacher.
• Discover “whole–body–support” templates for strong, comfortable, injury free asana practice.
• Learn to weave postures, breath and movement into progressive depths of experience. 
• Discover the grace and wisdom of the body-mind-spirit in movement and in stillness.
• Develop a depth and beauty in your yoga practice that remains constant when you step off the mat. 
• Learn to share this experience with others through teaching.

Program director, Patty Townsend, synthesizes more than 35 years of experience, including 2 decades of training teachers, into these highly educational and inspirational programs. Patty’s early study includes a decade with Ana Forrest, serious practice of Ashtanga with Richard Freeman, and 20 years of intensive study in the Iyengar tradition.

Our EMBODYOGA ™ programs provide a deep knowledge of alignment, profoundly influenced by the innovative approach to full embodiment and consciousness presented by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of the School for Body–Mind Centering®. 

Patty is a teacher of Tantric and Transcendental Meditation. She has obtained certificates in Embodied Anatomy™ and Embodied Developmental Movement™ in the teaching of yoga. Patty’s teaching includes an invaluable perspective and insight into the crucial process of refining and evolving practices for individuals based on life’s cycles.  She brings a strong understanding of all aspects of yoga practice and philosophy to this rich curriculum for training teachers.

Guest teachers include: Mark Hart, Andrea Olsen, Karen Miscal-Bannon and Eric Love

the 100 hour program requires Modules 1 & 2,
modules 3 & 4 complete the 200 hours needed for teacher training.

MODULE 1

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 1: Cellular Breathing – Navel Radiation
• Principle of a Quiet Spine
• Discriminating Core & Periphery – Finding Union
• Standing Postures 1– Our Foundation: Pelvis, Legs & Feet
• Surya Namaskar: Sun Salutations & Vinyasa
  
• Skeletal Structure with Andrea Olsen
• Ease in the Ilio–psoas Complex
• Yield and Push of the Legs
• Inversions 1: Shoulderstand & Handstand
• Pranayama 1: Ujjayi
• Yoga Nidra: Tantric Technique for Deep Rest

MODULE 2

• Standing Postures 2 – Dynamics & Alignment, Integrating Upper & Lower Body
• Ribs, Shoulder Girdle, Arms and Hands: Alignment & Integrated Movement
• Yield and Push of the Arms
• Lower Back Fundamentals: Sacroiliac & Lumbar Health
• Standing and Supine Forward Bends
• Lungs, Conchas of the Nose & Breathing Diaphragm
• Embodying Organs & Glands
• Breath in Asana Practice
• Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
• Cultivating a Rewarding Personal Practice
• Insight Meditation with Mark Hart

MODULE 3

• Principles of Backbends 1: Organ & Glandular Support
• Arm Balances 1
• Twists and Hip Openers 1
• Inversions 2: Headstand and Shoulderstand Cycle
• Savasana
• Pranayama 2: Viloma, Prana Vayus
• Bandhas – Integrating Core
• The Kosas: Spiralic Sheaths of Awareness
• The Systems of Yoga
• Insight Meditation with Mark Hart

MODULE 4

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 2: Spinal Patterns
• Integrated Whole Body Movement in Yoga Practice
• Precision Vinyasa — Flow and Hold
• Neuro–Endocrine System with Andrea Olsen
• Balancing Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems
• Temporal-Mandibular Joint, the Skull and Palate
• Backbends 2
• Twists, Hips and Arm Balances 2
• Pranayama 3: Nadi Shodhana and Kumbhaka
• Restorative Yoga
• Chakras, Nadis and Kundalini
• Tantra Yoga: The Expression of Life Lived in Fullness
  
  

• Principles of Observation, Instruction, Demonstration & Touch
• Art and Science of Sequencing
• Planning and Teaching Classes
• Principles of Teaching
• Philosophy and Ethics of Teaching
• Teaching as a Profession
  
  

Our 200-hour EMBODYOGA™ teacher training program is registered with the National Yoga Alliance.

• 100 Hour In-Depth Study 200 Hour Teacher Training
• 500 Hour Teacher Training
• Embody-Ashtanga-Yoga™
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